On the campus district Up the street from the theater district Down the road from University Circle

Somethings would not belong Cleveland to Seattle  Two mile thick ice Makes most things small Somethings earn the name great Two miles thick ice Makes some beautiful things We define our territory Two mile thick ice Gravel at the ready

​not the lead character So why center stage There used not to be so many of us Why we love choirs A collective voice that comments on the action Intermediary between the actors and the audience More than them and less than us Something lost in translation We think in twos and fours Sevens and nines Thirteen draws few near

I had six grandmas welcoming me here Four were my favorites One had a candy store I was too young to care Red cars with black wheels I always had space I didn't really know her until she didn't know who she was In my memories is all the space she made for me Grandpa in his chair was not concerned So many people in that small house I the smallest had the most space The last time I saw her in one of those large buildings What the word institution would always mean to me I had two of her daughters on each side To protect me from all those that would pinch my cheeks She was a Wheeling now no longer McClelland She remembered who she was with a large smile Folding napkins of her dress We had this picnic in the sun below outside the institution Grandma Eller stopped driving because all of her friends need a ride In nineties I remember her ninety sixth birthday Four years from one hundred never seemed so close She was my first friend from another generation We were close when we visite...

Not everything is supposed to function We pass more people than we will ever know What are the chances we speak Not ready for an end to 10,000 years of boring Anthropocene arrives another age ours They say though we think When things change things change I would have another age 8,000,000,000 reasons why We do nothing sustainable

Anxiety about youth is a canard Adults construct the world and leave New ones arrive We look to the past and think we see less anxiety We see what we want to see More days like this one than not Struggle is not new You cannot make life without labor So we dismiss those gone and blame those just arrived

Not everything can be solved How to teach is to learn and let people come along A performance art that teaches more than one lesson There are many types of people I have only met one Nigerian/Swedish woman There are fewer types of people than people These numbers are not so far from each other We are closer and more similar than different I believed history had structure Then I lived the last fifty years Here I am at Day 1 A new attitude sustainable Some problems solve themselves The skill is to know which

I used to look more forward to the future Nothing we do is sustainable Nothing ever has Here we are day 1 Ancient Space travelers We know where this ship is going Nothing here has to be sustained Can I have some of your purple berries?

​disconnects connected Riding the health line is a multi vibration plane You shouldn't be able to walk at 35 miles per hour Or at 10,000 feet We are modern as the ancients may have imagined In truth we are ancient If you went to the edge of the universe We would here be gone at the speed of light Imagine that Where you look at us Is the most important variable to my speed

What kind of record to set The most people wearing the same hat More people have wore more hats but not the same I am sure Time square NYC NYE 2025 The red necks come to mind The forgotten ones At times more black climbing from their mines People are becoming less interesting The familiar complaint of the youth is indictment the old People used to be better There were more holidays Yet they did more thing Things were also worse You do not have to live in the snow belt You do not have to live on the flood plain We can make better plans None have been good enough to get us beyond here In some countries after the New Year they get ready for the next Old calendars still remembered for various reasons The end result more holidays as May 1rst often joins to Easter holiday In some countries you can see the holiday in the economic data Like those who make most of their money in a short time The more money modern humans make it seems the less the holidays